After a lovely dinner of tempura prawns, beef and carrot stew, broccoli and sugar snap peas, champagne and a rather good Vaqueras, the traditional opening of the gifts began. There were a couple of pauses to add more logs to the fire and open another bottle of red to go with the cheese board.
©Norm Driskell |
The Saturday morning park-run was followed by their return here to shower off the mud and share a hearty protein-laden breakfast with us.
Later that evening, I spent some of my Christmas Posh Gift Vouchers on a sweater's worth of this gorgeous Patricia Aran.
Patricia Aran - colour 'In Dreams I look on you'. |